Bug 169552 - Comment Sidebar: Use User, Date, Time as comment title in treeview instead of "collapse"
Summary: Comment Sidebar: Use User, Date, Time as comment title in treeview instead of...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Sidebar-Comment
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Reported: 2025-11-19 19:28 UTC by jan d
Modified: 2025-11-19 20:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2025-11-19 20:59 UTC, jan d
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Description jan d 2025-11-19 19:28:59 UTC
Description:
Every comment in the sidebar has is in a treeview. Every selection to which comments are added is represented by "a branch" labeled with the selected text that the comment refers to; the comments itself are in this branch and are labeled with "collapse" and open a comment view that starts with strings for User, Date, Time as comment title.

Thus, every comment is labeled "collapse" even through this only makes sense when the comment is currently open. It also does not help to identify the comment when collapsed. 


Steps to Reproduce:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the sidebar (Ctrl+F5)
2. Open Comment sidebar 
3. Create a comment


Actual Results:
The comment itself is a branch labeled "collapse"

Expected Results:
The comment should have an identifieable title. 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 25.8.2.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: d401f2107ccab8f924a8e2df40f573aab7605b6f
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Dieter 2025-11-19 20:47:58 UTC
Jan, perhaps I misunderstnad your report, but I don't think, that collapse is a label, but the title of the action that happens, if you press checkbox

But I see the following problem

1. Open the sidebar (Ctrl+F5)
2. Open Comment sidebar 
3. Create a comment => comment appear in view mode in sidebar
4. Press "Collapse" => View Mode collapses
5. Create another comment

Actual result
first comment is again in View Mode

Expected result
Only new comment is in view mode

cc: Mohit Marathe
Comment 2 jan d 2025-11-19 20:57:08 UTC
> but I don't think, that collapse is a label, 
> but the title of the action that happens, if you press checkbox

With label I did mean "label of the node in the treeview". I know that it describes the action, but I think this is the problem: rather than telling you about the content, it just writes what usually happens if you click an opened  tree view node. (It also does not change to "expand" or the like when the node is closed i.e. the text only makes sense if it is open anyway)

> But I see the following problem

Please create another, separate issue for it (I can reproduce this; it deserves its own place)
Comment 3 jan d 2025-11-19 20:59:37 UTC
Created attachment 204115 [details]
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